Appendix A: Further References

There are two primary references that supplement this guide.

• eXtropia Applications Guide

  This guide contains complete information about how eXtropia applications are installed and configured in general. Most eXtropia applications follow a similar design, so once you understand one application you can easily pick up all the others.

  For this reason, we heavily reference the eXtropia Applications Guide in the documentation for individual applications. Not only that, but the eXtropia Applications Guide contains a slew of information from our CGI tutorials that have evolved over the last six years.

  At the very least, we usually recommend that everyone at the very least always read the security section of this guide. We update this section of the guide as soon as any new Web security issues are discovered, so you should consider reading through this if you are not aware of all the security ramifications involved in web programming.

  The eXtropia Applications Guide can be found at the following URL:

  http://www.extropia.com/freesupport.html

• eXtropia Application Development Toolkit Guide

  This guide contains further details on the various components that make up typical eXtropia applications. The following is small list of topics covered in the ADT guide.

  • How the ADT Works

  • How To Use References

  • Views and Filters

  • DataSource

  • Encryption

  • Mail

  • Sessions and Session Manager

  • DataHandlers

  • Authentication and Authentication Manager

  The ADT guide can be found at http://www.extropia.com/support/docs/adt/

In addition, there are other documents that provide an excellent supplement to this one. The following references stand-out as being some of the most important supplemental literature:

• The Mod_Perl Guide by Stas Bekman

  http://perl.apache.org/guide/

• The World Wide Web Security FAQ by Lincoln Stein

  http://www.w3.org/Security/faq/

• A Variety of Tutorials on Web Programming by eXtropia

  http://www.extropia.com/tutorials.html

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Of course, very few open source projects are done alone-- including this documentation.

• Selena Sol (selena@extropia.com)

  Selena Sol wrote this original guide.

• Gunther Birznieks (gunther@extropia.com)

  Gunther wrote the updates and formatted it for POD.

• Li Hsien Lim (hsien@extropia.com)

  Li Hsien was the first ``beta-tester'' for this documentation.

• Stas Bekman (sbekman@stason.org)

  Stas wrote the software that generated the HTML and PDF for this guide.

• Chris Hughes (chris@fysh.org)

• Lyndon Drake (lyndon@kcbbs.gen.nz)

• Nikhil Kaul (nikhil.kaul@barclayscapital.com)

• Josh Hill (josh@extropia.com)

  Josh helped edit and complete the documentation process.

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